This is the story of a wounded American soldier in World War I, who falls in love with a British nurse, who is still mourning the death of her fiancee a year before. This is another Hemingway story that is not pretty, in that there is little happiness to be found by these lovers. What "A Farewell to Arms" is, is another incredibly clear, crisp, almost blunt story of two people seeking happiness or, at least, an escape from misery, amidst the horrors of war. Hemingway tends to portray war as horrible but also adventurous, and that does not sit well with me as we deal with an extended war, for the United States. However, this novel is written so well that it is hard to not like it anyway.